THE FOREST AS A RESOURCE. 47 



experiences of German forest administration. Here 

 the forest resources are nearly if not entirely- 

 brought under rational management and are 

 treated as a crop, constantly furnishing harvests, 

 and being reproduced without diminishing the 

 wood capital. 



The results in quantity of raw product depend 

 of course largely on soil, climate, and species, and 

 in amount of money returns, also on market con- 

 ditions and means of transportation. 



These last conditions, if favorable, may render a 

 more intensive management and especially a closer 

 utilization of all kinds and classes of wood possible, 

 and hence the results differ widely. 



Thus the more extensively managed Prussian 

 government forests, which with an area of 6,750,000 

 acres are perhaps also stocked on poorer soils and 

 are less favorably situated, produced as an average 

 for a series of years 42 cubic feet of timber wood 

 (over 3 inches diameter) per acre, those of Bavaria 

 55, those of Baden 59, of Wiirtemberg 6^, while 

 the most intensively managed state forests of 

 Saxony of only 430,000 acres extent produced 90 

 cubic feet of wood per acre per year, of which 68 

 cubic feet was timber wood, the highest produc- 

 tion for such a large area. 



In Austria from nearly 25,000,000 acres the cut 

 in 1890 was 43 cubic feet per acre ; and for France 

 the cut in the state forests, supposed to equal the 

 annual growth, was stated for 1876 at 50 cubic 



